Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 16

The more you care for others, while denying yourself, the more pleasure life supplies you.
Sunday Adelaja
Most people desire comfort and pleasure.
Sunday Adelaja
There is always pleasure in increase
Sunday Adelaja
Discipline is when we postpone the pleasure of today for the benefit of tomorrow.
Sunday Adelaja
Greed makes one want to get blessings without qualifying for it
Sunday Adelaja
A lifestyle of love makes reigning sweet and the best
Sunday Adelaja
Samuel, wise is relative. Wise is listening to your heart and letting it decide what to do.” -Joseph Dahr.
Ray Anyasi
As salvation is personal, so also is the territory every individual has to possess.
Sunday Adelaja
Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty.
Michael Bassey Johnson
To succeed in your kingdom mission is to be consumed with the heartbeat of God
Sunday Adelaja
To have a life mission is to be pivoted on the ultimate fulfilment of God’s will
Sunday Adelaja
Criticize me if you can, but that won't stop me from saying what i like, my mouth is mine, and not yours.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Negative people will always be there to stain your pure image with their dirty tongues and brushes, but you'll always remain as white as snow, no matter how high the quality of paint they use.
Michael Bassey Johnson
If you know who you are, it makes you immune to criticism
Sunday Adelaja
While the whole world is struggling to help people get their freedom from the dangers of smoking, yet the over five million people, who yearly die from smoking still voluntarily head towards that deadly part.
Sunday Adelaja
An oath is the most powerful weapon we have in our struggle against fornication and adultery
Sunday Adelaja
The forefront is not the arena of winners, stay where you are, wherever you are, when its your time, you'll speed off like a psycopath.
Michael Bassey Johnson
I feel that there has to be a purpose to what we do. If there was no hope at all, we should just sleep or drink and wait for death. But we don’t want to do that. And why? I think something tells us that we should struggle. We don’t really know why we should struggle, but we do, because we think it’s better than sitting down and waiting for calamity.
Chinua Achebe
The mark you give is as a result of your search and struggles
Sunday Adelaja
A Christian's mindset should be a victorious mentality
Sunday Adelaja
Christians need to have a mindset of victory, because God has destined us for victory
Sunday Adelaja
A prolonged unforgiveness is a prolonged destruction mindset
Sunday Adelaja
A Godless Mindset Can Be Corrected By Proclamation Of The Raw Truth Of God
Sunday Adelaja
Faulty mindset reveals a great deception regarding the destiny of every believer
Sunday Adelaja
For an outpour of love there is always a first partaker
Sunday Adelaja
Europe was set free largely thanks to the Protestant reformation that began to teach that believers don’t have any assurances to salvation through the back doors.
Sunday Adelaja
If a person is saved, and still continues to live according to his former worldly way of life, he isnot only destroying himself and his salvation — he is also destroying his whole life.
Sunday Adelaja
God picked you up, saved you and redeemed you, not only because He needs you, but because this present generation also needs you. You represent hope to several thousands of people.
Sunday Adelaja
God gave us his word of salvation, for us to become the agents of His principles and the doers of His will, His judgment on earth
Sunday Adelaja
God is concerned with the salvation of nations
Sunday Adelaja
The easiest way to have a peek behind the curtain is to learn from those that are ahead of you.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
It is necessary to learn to turn your falls and misfortunes into God’s power and might in orderto have prosperity.
Sunday Adelaja
Everyone needs to learn to see the invisible selestian realities.
Sunday Adelaja
We are all blessed, but we must learn to count our blessings
Sunday Adelaja
The main thing is to learn to pray regularly, to do it systematically
Sunday Adelaja
Never become a slave to tradition, learn to foresee new things.
Sunday Adelaja
We need to bless instead of condemning, we need to learn to stand for the truth of God and for our rights
Sunday Adelaja
We need to learn to be deliverers and not just talk about it
Sunday Adelaja
Don't cry for someone who would love smiling when your tears are flowing.
Michael Bassey Johnson
When you are fed with the spoon of betrayal, you can choose to spit it out and live or swallow it and die
Ikechukwu Izuakor
How long will you continue to betray Jesus. I know you think he can defend himself like Judas thought but one of these days He will be the taken away. He will be killed. Dead in your heart.Dead till the word does nothing to you when it's preached.
Mary Tornyenyor
We must have a deep understanding of Who is the source of our blessings and to whom all the glory, praise and honor belong.
Sunday Adelaja
To be dignified and distinguished give honor and dignity to others.
Sunday Adelaja
He who does not know how to receive another person, honor him and provide common help is not considered to be worthy of deserving honor from others
Sunday Adelaja
The greatest honor is the right direction one is turned into by the Holy Spirit
Sunday Adelaja
It doesn't have to be dreads. You can wear an Afro, or braids like you used to. There's a lot you can do with natural hair
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The point of diversity workshops, or multicultural talks, was not to inspire any real change but to leave people feeling good about themselves. They did not want the content of her ideas; they merely wanted the gesture of her presence. They had not read her blog but they had heard that she was a “leading blogger” about race.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
People run away from the love game because they know they won't win the race.
Michael Bassey Johnson
White writers can be blunt about race and get all activist because their anger isn’t threatening
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Is Obama Anything but Black?So lots of folk—mostly non-black—say Obama’s not black, he’s biracial, multiracial, black-and-white, anything but just black. Because his mother was white. But race is not biology; race is sociology. Race is not genotype; race is phenotype. Race matters because of racism. And racism is absurd because it’s about how you look. Not about the blood you have. It’s about the shade of your skin and the shape of your nose and the kink of your hair. Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass had white fathers. Imagine them saying they were not black.Imagine Obama, skin the color of a toasted almond, hair kinky, saying to a census worker—I’m kind of white. Sure you are, she’ll say. Many American Blacks have a white person in their ancestry, because white slave owners liked to go a-raping in the slave quarters at night. But if you come out looking dark, that’s it. (So if you are that blond, blue-eyed woman who says “My grandfather was Native American and I get discrimination too” when black folk are talking about shit, please stop it already.) In America, you don’t get to decide what race you are. It is decided for you. Barack Obama, looking as he does, would have had to sit in the back of the bus fifty years ago. If a random black guy commits a crime today, Barack Obama could be stopped and questioned for fitting the profile. And what would that profile be? “Black Man.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
he lived in London indeed but invisibly, his existence like an erased pencil sketch
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In that strained, still second when her eyes met Christina Tomas's before she took the forms, she shrank. She shrank like a dried leaf. She had spoken English all her life, led the debating society in secondary school, and always thought the American twang inchoate; she should not have cowered and shrunk, but she did. And in the following weeks, as autumn's coolness descended, she began to practice an American accent.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
They probably don't really like pale skin but they certainly like walking into a store without some security dude following them. Hating Your Goy and Eating One Too, as the great Philip Roth put it. So if everyone in America aspires to be WASPs, then what do WASPs aspire to? Does anyone know?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I was telling them about back home and how all the boys were chasing me because I was half-caste, and they said I was dissing myself. So now I say biracial, and I'm supposed to be offended when somebody says half-caste. I've met a lot of people here with white mothers and they are so full of issues, eh. I didn't know I was even supposed to have issues until I came to America . Honestly, if anybody wants to raise bi-racial kids, do it in Nigeria
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
You can't write an honest novel about race in this country. If you write about how people are really affected by race, it'll be too obvious. Black writers who do literary fiction in this country, all three of them, not the ten thousand who write those bullshit ghetto books with the bright covers, have two choices: they can do precious or they can do pretentious. When you do neither, nobody knows what to do with you. So if you're going to write about race, you have to make sure it's so lyrical and subtle that the reader who doesn't read between the lines won't even know it's about race. You know, a Proustian meditation, all watery and fuzzy, that at the end just leaves you feeling watery and fuzzy.""Or just find a white writer. White writers can be blunt about race and get all activist because their anger isn't threatening.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Relaxing your hair is like being in prison. You're caged in. Your hair rules you. You didn't go running with Curt today because you don't want to sweat out this straightness. You're always battling to make your hair do what it wasn't meant to do.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Alexa and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls, but they would not understand the need to escape from the oppressive lethargy of choicelessness. They would not understand why people like him who were raised well fed and watered but mired in dissatisfaction, conditioned from birth to look towards somewhere else, eternally convinced that real lives happened in that somewhere else, were now resolved to do dangerous things, illegal things, so as to leave, none of them starving, or raped, or from burned villages, but merely hungry for for choice and certainty.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
They tell us race is an invention, that there is no genetic variation between two black people than there is between a black person and a white person. Then they tell us black people have a worse kind of breast cancer and get more fibroid. And white folk get cystic fibrosis and osteoporosis. So what’s the deal, is race an invention or not?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
God is available in your thinking, impulses, and impressions on your mind, so login
Ikechukwu Joseph
stars shine brighter in the blackness of darkness.Cheer up no matter your pains
Ikechukwu Joseph